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the proxy needed about 1.8g of updates but all pkg now up to date
problems changing wallpaper but since it is vnc no big surprise, actually this box with raid0 nvme will be ws and quad core 6th gen will be proxy box - it has more memory #kali xfce4

This week's Linux and FOSS news:

LINUX NEWS

GNOME 48 "Bengaluru" released with dynamic triple buffering to boost the performance on low-end GPUs, Wayland color management protocol support, new Adwaita fonts, HDR (High Dynamic Range) support, new Wellbeing feature with screen time tracking, new Display Control utility, new windows centered by default, OSD notifications for headphone connections, new Papers app as the default document viewer, notifications grouped by apps, improvements to Nautilus and Software, Loupe got image editing support etc.:
9to5linux.com/gnome-48-bengalu

Serpent OS changes name to AerynOS, because of "serpent" having a negative association:
9to5linux.com/ikey-dohertys-se
(Instead of a "negative" name, now it has a name that's hard to spell correctly, judging from how many people spell Python incorrectly lol)

Fedora 42 Beta available with new KDE edition (not spin anymore!), COSMIC spin, refreshed Anaconda installer, DNF5 improvements etc.:
betanews.com/2025/03/18/fedora

Kali Linux 2025.1 released with Xfce 4.20, KDE Plasma 6.2, refreshed theme, new keyboard shortcuts, kernel update, new partition layout etc.:
9to5linux.com/kali-linux-2025-

Lead developer of the Dash to Panel GNOME extension quits due to drama around the animated heart icon with a donation message:
news.itsfoss.com/dash-to-panel
(Linux isn't Linux without a drama each week...)

PINE64 RISC-V tablet (PineTab-V) gets new Debian-based distro, new accelerometer, a fix for a slow charging issue, an LED status indicator light, and a unique identifier for the PineTab-V in the EEPROM:
news.itsfoss.com/pinetab-v-upg

(FOSS news in comment)

So I want to make a script that generates a whole slew of generic NTLMv2 hashes for me to try to crack with Hashcat.

I'm doing NTLMv2 because it's actually relavent to my job right now and seems to be the only one I can't find a python script for.

Any recs for how I can do this?